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Saint John Sea Dogs have five games postponed after positive COVID test
QUEBEC - The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League's Saint John Sea Dogs have suspended in-person activities after a staff member tested positive for COVID-19.The Sea Dogs become the fifth team in the maj...
Nov 19, 2020
Province reports 98 new cases of COVID-19, 83 patients in hospital
There are 98 new cases of COVID-19 to report in Saskatchewan, bringing the provincial total to 5,651 cases.Several specimens recently arrived at the Roy Romanow Provincial Lab after weather and logist...
Nov 19, 2020
Solitary confinement persists in federal prisons despite new system, reports find
TORONTO - Prisoners are still being held in harmful solitary confinement despite a revamped system implemented after the courts struck down the previous regime as unconstitutional, according to two re...
Nov 19, 2020
Thompson has torn Achilles tendon, expected to miss season
SAN FRANCISCO - Golden State Warriors guard Klay Thompson has suffered a torn right Achilles tendon and is expected to miss the upcoming season, the team said Thursday. The team said in a tweet that a...
Nov 19, 2020
Border officer can't recall where idea to collect Meng's phone passcodes came from
VANCOUVER - The border officer who led the examination of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou at Vancouver's airport before her arrest two years ago says he can't recall whose idea it was to collect the pas...
Nov 19, 2020
'Shuggie Bain' writer Douglas Stuart wins Booker Prize
LONDON - Scottish writer Douglas Stuart won the Booker Prize for fiction Thursday for "Shuggie Bain," the story of a boy's turbulent coming of age in hardscrabble 1980s Glasgow. Stuart, 44, won the pr...
Nov 19, 2020
Men of the North hosting awareness walk, grandfather lodge ceremony
It's an important weekend for Men of the North as the group holds its annual Walk for Sobriety, as well as a traditional four-day ceremony at the urban reserve in La Ronge.The walk will occur Nov. 22 ...
Nov 19, 2020
Woodbine Entertainment announces that jockey has tested positive for COVID-19
TORONTO - A jockey based at Woodbine Racetrack has tested positive for COVID-19.Woodbine Entertainment made the announcement Thursday, but didn't divulge the identity of the jockey. As per the per the...
Nov 19, 2020
Daughter of 89-year-old in Saskatoon care home worries about quality of care amid COVID-19 outbreak
A 62-year-old Dalmeny area woman has removed her mother from a Saskatoon area care home after she says she became worried about the quality of care she had been receiving over the last few weeks.The w...
Nov 19, 2020
Federal figures on COVID-19 aid provide window into who needed the help
OTTAWA - Newly released data on emergency COVID-19 aid shows that some of the country's highest income earners used a key benefit for workers. The $2,000-a-month Canada Emergency Response Benefit paid...
Nov 19, 2020